279523 - usda.gov - A government site is denigrating Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[griffs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 netscape 7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 netscape 7

I sent this to the Licensing dept at Mozilla and they suggested that I submit it
here.

Please look at
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=Help_Technical_Requirements.xml

or www.usda.gov  >  Help  >  Techology Requirements.

The site implies that Mozilla may be less standards-compliant than the browsers
they are supporting.  Even tho' it may be legitimate for them to say that
certain browsers work better for their site, they can't say it's because others
aren't compliant.

Since I'm not in a position to bring this to their attention with any effect, I
hope you'll have your lawyers write to their lawyers about it.  I'm sure you
won't need to mention my email address either.

(The site does in fact work fine in Mozilla - I just think they've no business
making comments which are not only deroggatory but not true).


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Reporter, when you file a TE bug, please follow the reporting guidelines.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

its not quite an insult, just a clueless comment.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

contacted via web form

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Matti, did you ever hear anything back from them? They've still got the same comment there.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I can't remember if I got a response. I think I got one that they will change the site but I'm not sure and they didn't change it.

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